Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.